Gordon Messmer responded
>Jack Byers wrote:
> ftp://duke.eburg.com/pub/linux/init.firewall
...
>>I too found these sites useful.
>>The Burgiss script was easiest for me, mainly because it was a working
>>example. I was able to take his script and just change a few
>>IP addresses and it seemed to work for me.
>As the author of that script, I wonder how I could improve it. What,
>exactly, made the Burgiss script easier? AFAIK, my script will work
>without modification on a Red Hat Linux system. My entire focus with
>that script was to make it very easy to use/configure. To that end, one
>only needs to change the variables at the head of the file, whereas you
>have to change values thoughout the whole of the Burgiss script in order
>to configure it properly. I'd appreciate your thoughts.
>(at some point, I had planned on making a friendly UI for >configuration
>of the above script.)
Gordon,
I recall looking at your script, (probably the earliest version you
advertised) and being impressed with its potential of being able
to do most anything in the masqing, firewall area. But i was still
put off, by trying to dope out just what you meant by
PARANOIA, and some other syntax about 'local-remote' that didn't
make sense to me, certainly not on first read.
I went back to your script ( a newer one i think) and i was getting
more comfortable with the syntax, but still nervous that i didnt
exactly know just where to put MY ip numbers etc.,
exactly what services being denied, etc.,
in short i was still guessing.
I think that means that I at least
would still need your friendly UI to make use of it.
Maybe I was spending too much time trying to grok your methodology
instead of just using it.
I was still close to trying it, but then I ran across Burgiss's
script, which while long and rambly, still had a working example
and _lots_ of internal comments about what each section was doing,
with virtually no guesswork on my part,...so that's the way i went.
regards,
Jack
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